Government Moves Ahead on Plan to Connect India, China and Southeast Asia

MADAY ISLAND, Myanmar—Towering maps and billboards greet visitors to this sparse island by the Bay of Bengal, the starting point of twin oil and gas pipelines that run across Myanmar to China.

"Our aspirations are as high as the ocean waves," reads a sign in Chinese. "In the past, when we came here, there was nothing but barren land and the ocean," it says. "But now, everything has changed."